Title Like Vanessa / Tami Charles.

Publication Info.	Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, [2018]
	℗2018

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Location	Call No.	Status
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J CDBK CHARLES	Check Shelf

Edition	Unabridged.
Description	6 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
	digital optical 1.4 m. per second Digital recording rda
	audio file CD audio rda
Note	In container (17 cm.).
	Title from container.
	Compact disc.
Performer	Narrated by Channie Waites.
Summary	Middle graders will laugh and cry with thirteen-year-old Vanessa Martin as she tries to be like Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, by reluctantly entering her own beauty pageant. In this semi-autobiographical debut novel set in 1983, Vanessa Martin's real-life reality of living with family in public housing in Newark, New Jersey is a far cry from the glamorous Miss America stage. She struggles with an incarcerated mother she barely remembers, a grandfather dealing with addiction and her own battle with self-confidence. But when a new teacher at school coordinates a beauty pageant and convinces Vanessa to enter, Vanessa's view of her own world begins to change. Vanessa discovers that her own self-worth is more than the scores of her talent performance and her interview answers, and that she doesn't need a crown to be comfortable in her own skin and see her own true beauty.
Audience	10 years and up.
Subject	Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction.
	African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction.
	Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction.
	Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction.
	Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction.
	Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction.
	Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction.
	Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Family problems -- Fiction.
	Family life -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction.
	Schools -- Fiction.
	JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Themes -- Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance.
	Williams, Vanessa. (OCoLC)fst00239543
	African American girls. (OCoLC)fst00799183
	Beauty contests. (OCoLC)fst00829350
	Dysfunctional families. (OCoLC)fst01728523
	Nineteen eighties. (OCoLC)fst01037781
	Self-confidence. (OCoLC)fst01111517
	Urban schools. (OCoLC)fst01162597
	New Jersey -- Newark. (OCoLC)fst01205929
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Children's audiobooks.
	Novels.
Added Author	Waites, Channie, narrator.
	Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN	9781501990755
	1501990756
Music No.	C05163 Recorded Books

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